[Python-ideas] Documenting Python warts

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Wed Jan 2 14:39:21 CET 2013


On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 07:29:28AM -0600, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:35:45 +0400
> Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:59:39AM -0800, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What you seem to be
> > > advocating is that all languages be nothing more than syntactic sugar
> > > for the same underlying model.
> >    Yes, von Neumann architecture.
> 
> So all the differences between FORTRAN II, PROLOG and Python are
> syntactic sugar? I guess that makes preference in programming
> languages just a matter of taste.

   In the original message I used the word "imperative".

   I am crawling off of the discussion to my cave.

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            phd at phdru.name
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